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PublisherAcademic Studies Press

ISBN-101936235404

ISBN-139781936235407

eBay Product ID (ePID)122187100

Product Key Features

Number of Pages310 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameLate and Post-Soviet Russian Literature Vol. 1 :A Reader&Nbsp; (Vol. I)

SubjectRussia & the Former Soviet Union, Semiotics & Theory, Russian & Former Soviet Union

Publication Year2014

TypeTextbook

AuthorLisa Wakamiya

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, History

SeriesCultural Syllabus Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight31.6 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2015-298833

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"[O]ffers an unrivaled collection of Russian literary works in English from the perestroika and early post-Soviet periods. The book also offers valuable secondary works of criticism by well-known scholars in contemporary Russian literature... Late and Post-Soviet Literature offers an authentic, thoughtful, and carefully curated collection of texts and criticism, filling a need for works on this time period. It is an ideal text for use in an undergraduate course on contemporary Russian literature in translation, and, in fact, could be used alone for this purpose and/or in combination with full novels. If the first volume is any indication, we have much to look forward to in the second volume on the Thaw and Stagnation periods." --Rachel Stauffer, Slavic and East European Journal, 59.2, "Though its primary purpose, wonderfully fulfilled, is to serve as a core text for those teaching and studying contemporary Russian history, politics, culture, society and of course literature, this volume should be required reading for anyone wishing to understand and experience vicariously the shock-therapy of Russia's recent identity crises. Primary texts by a number of the best-known and most important contemporary prose writers and poets (Petrushevskaya, Sorokin, Bykov, Rubinshtein, Fanailova and others) are supplemented by critical studies by a number of leading scholars of the latest instantiations of some of Russia's "accursed questions". An exhilarating, sometimes exhausting guide to the passionate intensities and terrible beauties of post-Soviet culture." -Andrew Reynolds, University of Wisconsin

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal891.7090044

SynopsisThis remarkable study makes a critical intervention in the study of Soviet and post-Soviet Russian culture. It shows us in a new manner what was distinctive about Soviet social and cultural history and in what ways it should be seen as a variety of the common story of modernity. Further, it explores how the cultural life of present day Russia has inherited these structures and patterns., The first volume of Late and Post-Soviet Russian Literature: A Reader introduces a diverse spectrum of literary works from Perestroika to the present. It includes poetry, prose, drama and scholarly texts, many of which appear in English translation for the first time. The three sections, "Rethinking Identities," "'Little Terror' and Traumatic Writing," and "Writing Politics," address issues of critical relevance to contemporary Russian culture, history and politics. With its selection of texts and introductory essays Late and Post-Soviet Russian Literature: A Reader brings university curricula into the twenty-first century.

LC Classification NumberPG3022